Garment hanger



Nov. 13, 1934. K. E.-'GOERNER I 1,980,939

' GARMENT HANGER Filed'Feb. 29. 1932 Patented Nov. 13, 1934 GARMENT HANGER Karl Emil Goerner, Wood-Ridge, N. J. Application February 29, 1932, Serial No. 595,733

3 Claims.

My invention relates to garment hangers of a general type well-known and widely in use, wherein there is employed an upper, or coat, bar and an under bar upon which to hang trousers, 5 skirts or other garments. It is common practice in connection with such devices to attach each end of the under bar to a corresponding adjacent end of the upper bar, with the result that garments to be placed upon the under bar must be pulled endwise through the space between the upper bar and the under bar in order to leave them folded over, and thus hanging upon the under bar. This procedure is inconvenient and is apt to result in wrinkling the garment as it is placed upon-the under bar so that creases must be smoothed out of the fold across the bar. To avoid such difliculties, it is occasionally the practice to make an under bar which is detachable from the upper bar at one or both ends so that the under bar may be slipped endwise beneath the folded-over; garment to be hung thereon, Such construction, however, involves procedure of detaching, attaching and otherwise adjusting the under bar which is in itself a great inconvenience.

It has been the special object of my invention to provide an under bar which may he slipped endwise beneath a folded-over garment to hung thereon without the need of adjusting the relationship of the upper bar and under bar either before or after the garment is placed upon the under bar.

My device may be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a front view of a preferred form of my invention, in which the free end of the under bar is in vertically-spaced relationship with the adjacent end ofthe upper bar.

Fig. 2 is an end view of my device as shown 40 in Fig. 1, viewed from the right.

Fig. 3 is a front view of a modified form of my device as shown in Fig. 1, in which the spaced relationship of the free end of the under bar with respect to the adjacent end of the upper bar is horizontal rather than vertical.

Fig. 4 is an end view of my device as illustrated in Fig. 3, viewed from the right.

Fig. 5 is a section on line 5-5 of Fig. 3, viewed in the direction indicated by the arrow.

' under bar 3, preferably made integral with the Referring now more specifically to the draw- 7 upper bar 1 at its left end, has its right end free and in vertically-spaced relationship with the adjacent end of the upper bar 1, whereby there is provided a space between the adjacent free ends of the two bars which permits the passage of the folded garment to be placed on the under bar 3 so that the under bar 3 may be inserted beneath the fold in a quick and convenient manner, thus avoiding the necessity of inserting the garment endwise between the upper bar and 65 under bar.

In that form of my device illustrated in Figs.

3, 4 and 5, there is an upper bar 4 and hook 5 resembling generally the upper bar 1 and the hook 2 of that form of device illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. The lower ends of the upper bar 4, however, are brought down somewhat lower than the free end of the upper bar 1, and to the left-hand lower end of the upper bar 4 there is attached by rivets- 7 an under bar 6 which does' not lie quite parallel with the upper bar 4 but occupies a slightly angular position with respect thereto, as the left end of the upper bar 4 is slightly beveled where the left end of the bar 6 is riveted thereto, as indicated in Fig. 5. 30 There results a horizontally-spaced relationship between the adjacent free right ends of the upper bar 4 and lower bar 6 so as to provide a space which will permit the passage of a folded g'arment beneath the fold of which the under bar 6 is slipped endwise.

It will be readily understood that the upper bars 1 or 4 may be somewhat variously contoured according to standard practice.

When a coat is placed upon the upper bar in either form of my device by inserting its ends under the shoulders of the coat in the. usual manner, the coat hanging downwardly from the free end of the coat bar will effectively prevent a garment hung across the under bar from slid ing off should the device he rocked or swayed abruptly in such manner as would otherwise' cause the garment folded across the under bar to slide off.

As will be readily understood from the foregoing, my device has the advantages of great simplicity as well as added convenience. Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a device of the character specified combination of an arched upper bar adapted to be inserted beneath the shoulders of the coat and a straight under bar, one endof which is connected to one end of the said upper bar and the other end of which lies adjacent to and'in fixed 3, In a device of the character specified combination of an arched upper bar adapted to be inserted beneath the shoulders of the coat and a straight under bar, one end of which is connected to one end or the said upper bar and the other end of which lies adjacent to and in fixed horizontally-spaced relationship with the other end of said upper bar.

K. EMJL GOERNER. 

